A year and a half later

I received the most wonderful message today on Facebook. A message that lifted my heart like no other!

"Hola hermana como esta? Ya fui bautisado hermana" Ya...fui...BAUTISADO!!!

What does it mean? It means that I got a message from an investigator I taught from June 2012 to mid July 2012 and nothing happened. My companion and I taught him almost everyday. We taught him with his girlfriend. I bore my heart and soul to him. I bore my testimony with all the feeling of my heart and when I left to go home, he was still not baptized. I was sad, yes, but I left satisfied that I had done all that I could at that time.
Each day that passes as I am away from my full time mission in Texas, my testimony of the Lord's timing increases. It grows. Because each day that passes that I am away from the city of Austin, the city where I was SO close to seeing people baptized I just hope and pray that the missionaries assigned to that area are continuing to look for those who are ready. I hope that they are working hard. I hope that they are in tune with the Spirit and will maybe one day find someone that I had to leave with just my testimony hanging in the air. That happened. THAT HAPPENED! The work continued after I was gone. The work forged on and my dear friend was baptized two Saturdays ago. He messaged me the message in blue.

He then followed it up with this when I asked him how his baptism was.

"Increible hermana es una esperiencia super increible despues de mi bautiso me senti super bien siento el espirito y me encanta.Estoy muy feliz con la decision que tome hermana" 

He said it was incredible and that it was an experience that was super incredible and after his baptism he felt very good and he could feel the Spirit and he loved it. He said he is very happy with the decision he made. It was his decision. That is key. He was finally ready. No one could have forced that on him. If that were the case, he would have been baptized a year and a half ago!
 The Spirit continued to work on him and the Lord softened his heart.
I know people who wait more than fifteen years before they hear any good news from a past area they served in. I know people who will never know. I may never know about the others. 
But what do I know? I know nothing. This is not my work. 
Moses 1:39. I am just one part of this work.